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PENFOLD, Jane Wallas (fl. 1820-1850, artist) and William Lewes Pugh GARNONS (1791-1863). Madeira Flowers, Fruits, and Ferns. London: Reeve, Brothers, 1845. 4° (305 x 240mm). Hand-coloured lithographed additional title and 20 hand-coloured lithographed plates by R. E. B. after Penfold, 3 double-page, subscribers leaf with woodcut border (occasional light spotting or marking, light marginal browning, one plate with short marginal tear, another trimmed touching number). Original green cloth gilt, boards with borders and foliate cornerpieces in blind, upper board with central gilt urn design repeated in blind on the lower board, 20th-century morocco spine lettered in gilt, g. e. (a little rubbed, faded and marked, skilfully rebacked and recornered, endleaves replaced).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF PENFOLD'S RARE WORK ON MADEIRAN BOTANY. The work is illustrated with finely-detailed plates of the flowers, fruits and ferns of the island after Penfold's drawings, which are accompanied by scientific descriptions by the Rev. W.L.P. Garnons, FLS and 'local information appended to most of the pages [by] a younger and less experienced writer' (preface); it seems possible that this younger writer was the author's daughter, Augusta J. Robley, whose A Selection of Madeira Flowers, Drawn and Coloured from Nature (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845) forms a companion volume to the present work. Also of note is the prefatory poem 'Verses Composed at the Request of Jane Wallas Penfold' by William Wordsworth, dated 1 January 1843 and FIRST PUBLISHED HERE, which is followed by Mrs Calverley Bewicke's 'Song of the Madeira Flowers'. (Unsurprisingly, T.J. Wise possessed these two latter leaves alone, with an identical setting and appearance, and catalogued them as 'The First Edition ... Of this handsomely privately-printed brochure the present is the only example known to exist' (Wise Two Lake Poets, London: 1927, p. 31); however, as N. Barker and J. Collins observe in A Sequel to An enquiry, this 'brochure' has 'no separate existence outside the Ashley Library', p. 192.) RARE: the subscribers' copies number 66 and it seems unlikely that many more copies were printed; only two copies (the Plesch and Duchess of Manchester copies) are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. BM(NH) IV, p. 1542; Nissen BBI 1503; Pritzel 7030; Stafleu and Cowan 7629.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF PENFOLD'S RARE WORK ON MADEIRAN BOTANY. The work is illustrated with finely-detailed plates of the flowers, fruits and ferns of the island after Penfold's drawings, which are accompanied by scientific descriptions by the Rev. W.L.P. Garnons, FLS and 'local information appended to most of the pages [by] a younger and less experienced writer' (preface); it seems possible that this younger writer was the author's daughter, Augusta J. Robley, whose A Selection of Madeira Flowers, Drawn and Coloured from Nature (London: Reeve Brothers, 1845) forms a companion volume to the present work. Also of note is the prefatory poem 'Verses Composed at the Request of Jane Wallas Penfold' by William Wordsworth, dated 1 January 1843 and FIRST PUBLISHED HERE, which is followed by Mrs Calverley Bewicke's 'Song of the Madeira Flowers'. (Unsurprisingly, T.J. Wise possessed these two latter leaves alone, with an identical setting and appearance, and catalogued them as 'The First Edition ... Of this handsomely privately-printed brochure the present is the only example known to exist' (Wise Two Lake Poets, London: 1927, p. 31); however, as N. Barker and J. Collins observe in A Sequel to An enquiry, this 'brochure' has 'no separate existence outside the Ashley Library', p. 192.) RARE: the subscribers' copies number 66 and it seems unlikely that many more copies were printed; only two copies (the Plesch and Duchess of Manchester copies) are recorded at auction by ABPC since 1975. BM(NH) IV, p. 1542; Nissen BBI 1503; Pritzel 7030; Stafleu and Cowan 7629.
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